88 LE. B. Andrews on the Geological Relations of Rock Oil. 
or less oil. 
But it is in regions where the strata have been the most dis-. 
turbed and where the fissures are the most numerous, that the 
most oil is found. 
I have recently traced a most interesting line of uplift and 
dislocation from the eastern part of Washington county, Ohio, to 
beyond the great oil wells on the Little Kanawha River. The 
direction of it is nearly north and south. It makes an angle of 
about 40° with the general course of the Alleghany Mountains. 
As seen in Ohio it presents a well marked anticlinal axis but 
with the eastern slope more steep than the western. Near the 
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West. East. 
A 
Section on the Ohio in vicinity of Newell's Run. 
anticlinal lines at A, fig. 8, are oil and gas springs. A few miles 
south, on Cow Creek, Va., it is seen as represented by fig 4. At 
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West. £ A East. 
Section on Cow Creek, Va, 
the anticlinal line are gas and oil ee Fifteen or twenty 
iles farther south, near Petroleum, Ritchie Co., Va., the uplift 
ing force has been greater and the strata have been broken apart 
